Publisher: Little Brown Books

There are No Easy Answers – The Queen of Nothing {Review}

Posted January 21, 2020 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

There are No Easy Answers – The Queen of Nothing {Review}The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
Series: The Folk of the Air
Publisher: Little Brown Books (2019)
Hardcover (308 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, The Darkest Part of the Forest
Reading Challenges: Read 2020

Synopsis

He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.

Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power.

Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.

Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict’s bloody politics.

And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity…

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{Review} Wolf by Wolf – A Motorcycle Race and a Plan to Kill the Führer

Posted March 3, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Wolf by Wolf – A Motorcycle Race and a Plan to Kill the FührerWolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
Series: Wolf by Wolf #1
Publisher: Little Brown Books (2015)
Hardcover (388 pages)
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2016

Synopsis

The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan rule the world. To commemorate their Great Victory over Britain and Russia, Hitler and Emperor Hirohito host the Axis Tour: an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents. The victor is awarded an audience with the highly reclusive Adolf Hitler at the Victor's ball.
Yael, who escaped from a death camp, has one goal: Win the race and kill Hitler. A survivor of painful human experimentation, Yael has the power to skinshift and must complete her mission by impersonating last year's only female victor, Adele Wolfe. This deception becomes more difficult when Felix, Adele twin's brother, and Luka, her former love interest, enter the race and watch Yael's every move. But as Yael begins to get closer to the other competitors, can she bring herself to be as ruthless as she needs to be to avoid discovery and complete her mission?

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{Review} Not If I See You First – Uniquely Narrated by a Blind Character

Posted February 11, 2016 in Reading, Review / 4 Comments

{Review} Not If I See You First – Uniquely Narrated by a Blind CharacterNot If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom
Publisher: Poppy (2015)
Hardcover (310 pages)
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2016

Synopsis

The Rules:
Don’t deceive me. Ever. Especially using my blindness. Especially in public.
Don’t help me unless I ask. Otherwise you're just getting in my way or bothering me.
Don’t be weird. Seriously, other than having my eyes closed all the time, I’m just like you only smarter.
Parker Grant doesn’t need 20/20 vision to see right through you. That’s why she created the Rules: Don’t treat her any differently just because she’s blind, and never take advantage. There will be no second chances. Just ask Scott Kilpatrick, the boy who broke her heart.
When Scott suddenly reappears in her life after being gone for years, Parker knows there’s only one way to react—shun him so hard it hurts. She has enough on her mind already, like trying out for the track team (that’s right, her eyes don’t work but her legs still do), doling out tough-love advice to her painfully naive classmates, and giving herself gold stars for every day she hasn’t cried since her dad’s death three months ago. But avoiding her past quickly proves impossible, and the more Parker learns about what really happened—both with Scott, and her dad—the more she starts to question if things are always as they seem. Maybe, just maybe, some Rules are meant to be broken.
Combining a fiercely engaging voice with true heart, debut author Erid Lindstrom’s
Not If I See You First illuminates those blind spots that we all have in life, whether visually impaired or not.

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Review: The Darkest Part of the Forest – Faeries Are Real!

Posted August 24, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

Review: The Darkest Part of the Forest – Faeries Are Real!The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
Publisher: Little Brown Books (2015)
Hardcover (324 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, The Queen of Nothing
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.
Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once.
At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.
Until one day, he does…
As the world turns upside down, Hazel tries to remember her years pretending to be a knight. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?

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Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown – A Different Take on Vampires

Posted April 20, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown – A Different Take on VampiresThe Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Publisher: Little Brown Books (2013)
Audiobook
{12 hours and 5 minutes} (419 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: The Darkest Part of the Forest, The Queen of Nothing

Synopsis

Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never leave.
One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.

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